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PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
VOL. III. OCTOBER, 1894. NO.8
ATHLETICS IN GERMANY. By PIERRE CARTIER. Translated by C. F. B. Wall.
From Les Sports Athlethiques et La Revue Athlethique.
During a pretty long stay which I made in Hanover, about ten years ago, after having lived in England, I had been naturally led to study Germany from an athletic point of view. I was a new convert to the benefits of open air sports which I had practiced in London, and hoped to find in Germa¬ny my accustomed tennis and foot ball club. One solitary lawn tennis club, composed exclusively of English, and possessing only one asphalt court, modestly represented the open air games of Hanover. Admitted as a member on the nomination of the sol¬itary French representative, we played from morning till evening under the marvelling gaze of the German youth who contemplated us with superb dis¬dain. There is no telling the heroic efforts we made to get up a foot ball club in Hanover, during the winter of '82-'83. After having recruited, with the greatest difficulty, five or six Ger¬man players, sons of our professors, I can remember their disappearing, one after the other, after a few games, leaving us, about twenty English and two French, to play by ourselves. Useless to say that the foot ball club at Hanover died of atrophy soon after¬
wards.
At Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfort-on the-Main, Carlsruhe, Baden-Baden, at Heidelberg, I continued my search through the following summer; and though everywhere I found the En¬
glish colonies, according to their wont, founding little clubs, still I also ascer¬tained absolute indifference of the Ger-man youth to games in the open.
On the whole,in 1883, athletics were absolutely unknown in Germany. However, little by little, a few youths here and there gained admittance to the English clubs, and after awhile founded other clubs which immediate¬ly began to gain strength and to mul¬tiply, thanks to the spirit of organiza¬tion and discipline which so character¬izes the German people."
At this time present, the three prin¬cipal centers of athletics are: Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfort~on-the-Main. From these centers the movement is extending little by little; every day the spot of oil is spreading and in the not distant future, junction will be made, and on that day all Germany will lie at the feet of athleticism.
Although the development of .ath¬leticism has been rapid in France, I am obliged to acknowledge that the success has been still greater among our rivals on the other banks of the Rhine. We can easily satisfy our¬selves as to this by examining the present state of sports in Germany.
Track races are governed by the German Amateur Athletic Union, which has two centers, Berlin and Hamburg, with a central committee at Berlin. The principal affiliated clu~s are at Berlin, The Excelsior, Adler, Sylvia, Academic, and Berlin Spprt Club, and the Berlin Cricket Club,¬and a number of others such as Teu¬tonic, Tasmania, Concordia, Vorwarts, etc., etc. The list is a long one. In

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
VOL. III. OCTOBER, 1894. NO.8
ATHLETICS IN GERMANY. By PIERRE CARTIER. Translated by C. F. B. Wall.
From Les Sports Athlethiques et La Revue Athlethique.
During a pretty long stay which I made in Hanover, about ten years ago, after having lived in England, I had been naturally led to study Germany from an athletic point of view. I was a new convert to the benefits of open air sports which I had practiced in London, and hoped to find in Germa¬ny my accustomed tennis and foot ball club. One solitary lawn tennis club, composed exclusively of English, and possessing only one asphalt court, modestly represented the open air games of Hanover. Admitted as a member on the nomination of the sol¬itary French representative, we played from morning till evening under the marvelling gaze of the German youth who contemplated us with superb dis¬dain. There is no telling the heroic efforts we made to get up a foot ball club in Hanover, during the winter of '82-'83. After having recruited, with the greatest difficulty, five or six Ger¬man players, sons of our professors, I can remember their disappearing, one after the other, after a few games, leaving us, about twenty English and two French, to play by ourselves. Useless to say that the foot ball club at Hanover died of atrophy soon after¬
wards.
At Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfort-on the-Main, Carlsruhe, Baden-Baden, at Heidelberg, I continued my search through the following summer; and though everywhere I found the En¬
glish colonies, according to their wont, founding little clubs, still I also ascer¬tained absolute indifference of the Ger-man youth to games in the open.
On the whole,in 1883, athletics were absolutely unknown in Germany. However, little by little, a few youths here and there gained admittance to the English clubs, and after awhile founded other clubs which immediate¬ly began to gain strength and to mul¬tiply, thanks to the spirit of organiza¬tion and discipline which so character¬izes the German people."
At this time present, the three prin¬cipal centers of athletics are: Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfort~on-the-Main. From these centers the movement is extending little by little; every day the spot of oil is spreading and in the not distant future, junction will be made, and on that day all Germany will lie at the feet of athleticism.
Although the development of .ath¬leticism has been rapid in France, I am obliged to acknowledge that the success has been still greater among our rivals on the other banks of the Rhine. We can easily satisfy our¬selves as to this by examining the present state of sports in Germany.
Track races are governed by the German Amateur Athletic Union, which has two centers, Berlin and Hamburg, with a central committee at Berlin. The principal affiliated clu~s are at Berlin, The Excelsior, Adler, Sylvia, Academic, and Berlin Spprt Club, and the Berlin Cricket Club,¬and a number of others such as Teu¬tonic, Tasmania, Concordia, Vorwarts, etc., etc. The list is a long one. In